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Talk to the potential supervisors. Chat with their past and current students. Find out what projects they have in mind. Those aspects and how supportive the supervisor is are more …

If your private key has a good passphrase and is suitably encrypted, say with ed25519, then that's probably as good as you can do other than physically going into work and storing …

Hi, You prob need to do some investigation on what HPC users requirements are. For instance, genomics researchers need lots of cores and memory. For those users a 16 vCPU, 64GB RAM…

I prefer Mercurial. It's easier to teach to non-programmers and it has a less confusing cli. Git has a terrible mess of cli options. I have also used Fossil and that is very nicely…

Hi. I always liked science so I went into physics and got a PhD. That led me to work in semiconductor manufacturing, then a national research organisation, some research for small …

I use MakeDocs with Material theme as most of my websites are for documentation. It all depends on what sort of website you want and for what audience. Go to the static website gen…

That percentage is possibly far too low and misleading. Most Windows devices, like all those home PCs, do not use Cloudstrike. What is important was the % of servers it took out th…

I do it with bash and ImageMagick. Just takes a couple of lines of bash. That's been around for a few decades.

TeX and LaTeX :-) They are turing complete.

I like the simple, minimalist UI that HN currently has. I cannot think of any features that it currently lacks. I'm already spending more time here than on /.

I think its likely that the Russian and Chinese spies would be applying for the cleaning, general administration and cooking jobs, so they can listen in on the chit chat in the lun…

I have used rsync.net for my server backups. You can copy into place a private key and they can setup a cron job so that the rsync is initiated from rsync.net. Thay way no one crac…